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The OTW is Recruiting for Fanlore, Strategic Planning, Organizational Culture Roadmap, Policy & Abuse, and Tag Wrangling
Are you interested in social media or community management? Do you have experience with research methods or nonprofit governance? Would you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? Do you enjoy researching and brainstorming solutions to problems? Would you like to wrangle AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from another language to English? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting! We’re excited to announce the opening of applications for: Fanlore Social Media and Outreach Volunteer – closing 14 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC or after 40 applications Strategic Planning Volunteer – closing 14 October 2026 at 23:59 UTC Organizational Culture Roadmap Volunteer –… Read more
Updates to “No Fandom” Additional Tags, September 2026
AO3 Tag Wranglers continue to test processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don’t belong to any particular fandom (also known as “No Fandom” tags). This post overviews some of these upcoming changes. In this round of updates, we continued to adjust existing canonical “No Fandom” tags to add or remove new subtag and metatag relationships. We also continued to streamline creating new canonical tags, prioritizing more straightforward updates which would have less discussion compared to renaming current canonical tags or creating new canonical tags which touch on more complex topics. This method also reviews new tags on a… Read more
Transformative Works and Cultures Releases Issue No. 49
Transformative Works and Cultures has released general issue No. 49, edited by co-editors Poe Johnson and Mel Stanfill. Our annual general issue includes 11 full essays, eight Symposium essays, and three book reviews. These include: “Every demented detail I could ask for has been rendered”: On fan-made media and celebrating the affordances of the action figure Tags on Archive of Our Own as genderfucked technology Clickbait, clout, and collapse: The life cycle of the antifan economy From the Canadian shack to the Canadian cottage: Heated Rivalry as slash Fandom for us, by us: The pleasures and practices of Black audiences, by Alfred L. Martin, Jr.
Five Things taki Said
Every month or so the OTW will be doing a Q&A with one of its volunteers about their experiences in the organization. The posts express each volunteer’s personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OTW or constitute OTW policy. Today’s post is with taki, who volunteers as a User Response Translation Committee Chair, Policy & Abuse Volunteer, and Tag Wrangling Volunteer. How does what you do as a volunteer fit into what the OTW does? I’ve had a bunch of roles in the OTW, all of which fit into it in different ways! I started out as a tag wrangler, where… Read more
Celebrating the OTW’s 19th Anniversary
The OTW is turning 19 today! In the past year, we published more than 100 news posts on a variety of topics, ranging from AO3 release notes to our Five Things series to news on Open Doors archive imports, to name a few! If you’re interested in following our work more closely, and keeping up to date with our latest news, there are many channels for you to do so. For starters, you can check out the news section either on this website, or the AO3 homepage for new posts and announcements. If you would like those news to be conveniently delivered to your email… Read more